Playing it Smart: eLTE Goes to the Games

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Nanjing is the second largest city in Eastern China, with a population of 8 million people. The Municipal Government decided to build a citywide wireless broadband network to attract smart industries and prepare for the 2013 Asian Youth Games and 2014 Youth Olympic Games. Serving as their information backbone, the city looked to the network to lay a solid foundation for a “Smart Nanjing”.

Challenges

With a population slightly larger than the San Francisco Bay Area, spread over about 4,000 sq. miles (6,600 sq. km), Nanjing is a big place. It needs the same broadband services as any large city, but also needed to cope with the complexities of large sports venues and integrating public utilities into their network.

Solutions such as Wi-Fi, WiMAX, public 3G networks, and TETRA-based network expansion could not meet the demands in terms of performance, reliability, high bandwidth, and scalability. So, Nanjing decided to use the Huawei eLTE solution — a mature end-to-end solution that provides rich functions over a single network, from traditional trunking to voice and video dispatch to real-time video distribution.

In addition to the typical services a big city needs, Nanjing hosted the 2013 Asian Youth Games and 2014 Youth Olympic Games. These large events involved thousands of athletes, dozens of venues, and were seen around the globe, providing Nanjing the opportunity to showcase itself to the world.

During the games, Huawei’s solution provided reliable, high-quality communications and helped guarantee the success of the event by providing:

Fixed and mobile surveillance capturing live traffic and security feeds from around athlete housing, stadiums, and nearby areas

Coordination and dispatch between the command center, event organizers, security, and transportation

Benefits

Huawei’s solution provides a number of benefits:

Voice, video, and data on a single, high-speed network

Multiband capabilities to avoid the signal interference prevalent in big cities and at large venues